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Æ34 - Trajan L ΙΑ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 107-108 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the winged goddess of victory, striding to the left in dynamic pose, holding a victor's wreath in her outstretched right hand and a long palm-branch in her left. A military trophy is depicted to the left of the figure, referencing Trajan's Dacian campaigns. The regnal date legend appears in the field. The coin's surface is significantly worn, with the design elements discernible but lacking fine detail. |
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Year 11 of Trajan's reign marked a pivotal moment in Roman imperial ambition: the second Dacian war had just concluded in 106 AD, with Dacia formally annexed as a province. Alexandrian bronze issues of this regnal year were struck against that backdrop of military triumph, and the Egyptian mint — operating under the prefect's authority rather than the Senate's — continued producing its own distinctive dating system entirely separate from the Roman tribunician count.
The L ΙΑ notation designates regnal year 11 by the Alexandrian calendar reckoning, running from late 107 into 108 by the Julian calendar.